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What are social bookmarking websites
From the course: SEO: Optimize Your Social Media Profiles
What are social bookmarking websites
- [Instructor] A social bookmarking website is a platform that allows users to store and share internet bookmarks. So these can be links to websites, and these includes platforms such as Reddit, Pinterest, and Digg. So an upvote is when users of a social bookmarking website actually vote up a link. So the more upvotes a particular link gets, then the more popularity that particular post has, and the more exposure and the more people potentially can see that particular post. So first and foremost, these social bookmarking websites can help your website to gain traffic. So a lot of votes means that a particular bookmark will be attracting a lot of traffic organically from that particular bookmarking website. And secondly, it can help improve SEO as well. So a page that has been upvoted by a lot of users is also an indicator to platforms such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing, that this specific page is a popular one, and in turn, this can positively impact the page's search engine results. So…
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